Jessica Beres: came to UAF from Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia) in summer 2009 as an undergraduate intern through the ARSC REU program. Later Jessica presented her research results as a poster (Beres J., Prakash A., Gens R., and Mölders N, Comparison of WRF Model Outputs and MODIS Image Products for Cloud Presence for the High Latitudes: A Case Study) at the Annual Meeting of SEDAAG (Knoxville, TN, Nov 2009) and AAG (Washington, DC, Apr 2010). Jessica can be reached at jberes87@gmail.com.

Robert (Bob) Mikol: is a geography major who is passionate about geospatial technology and map making. In summer 2008 he worked with me on an ice patch archeology project in Alaska’s Wrangell St. Elias National Park. For the project Bob georeferenced old aerial photos from the early 50s, and U2 color infrared photos from 70s with recent high resolution satellite images to map how ice patches with archeological significance have been shrinking with warming climate. The project lead is Jim Dixon and UAF contact is Will Harrison. Bob can be reached at rmikol@gci.net

Eric Burger: came to UAF as an NSF REU intern in summer 2005. I had him involved in using remote sensing data to monitor six decades of thermokarst change in the Barrow region, Alaska. Coming from Georgia, Eric was really excited at the sight of snow (remenant) in summer in Barrow (the northern most place in the US). He also was broave to take a short swim in the cold Arctic waters. He is currently working as an ORISE fellow for the Centers for Disease Control and comleting his graduate degree from Georgia State University. Eric can be reached at fky7@cdc.gov or 770-4883853.

Stefan Gaston: came to UAF as an NSF REU intern in summer 2004 and worked on using a time series of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images to track the changes in channel morphology in the Colville River, Alaska. Stefan later graduated with an MSc in Geography from University of California Santa Barbara working on forest structure classification of MODIS image using spectral mixture analysis and topographic normalization. He currently works as a quality control engineer with DigitalGlobe in Longmont / Boulder, Colorado, and can be reached at mercator154@gmail.com.

Katherine (Katie) Habermas: came to UAF from Florida Institute of Technology as an NSF REU intern in summer 2004. Her interest was to enhance her programming skills in IDL. Katey worked on generating a seamless mosaic of aerial photos of the Alaska North Slope, NPRA region, acquired in 2002 by BLM. As far as I know, Katey continued to complete a masters degree in physics from the Johns Hopkins University, and works as a scientist for Applied Signal Technology in the Washington, DC area. I have lost contact with Katey for a while now.

Christian Nielsen: Christian grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, and joined me in 2002 as a summer intern right after High School. He worked on an Alaska Space Grant Program funded project and programmed an online educational website called Alaska: A Bird's Eye View. The site passed a rigorous panel review and was approved as a part of tthe NASAs reviewed collection of educational material. Christian moved on to higher academia and is completing his Ph.D. from UCSD studying mechanics of materials, specifically the fracture and healing of polymers and composites. He can be reached at chr.nielsen@gmail.com.